Reviewer: Janet Davies
Title: Sapphire Summer
Author: Joanie MacNeil
Publisher: Wings ePress Inc
E-book ISBN: 1-59705-059-8
Release Date: December 2006
Genre/Sub-genre: Contemporary Romance
Year/Setting: Present Day – – Sapphire Coast, Canberra Australia
Overall Rating: 4.0
Sexual Content Rating: Sensual
Language (Profanity) Rating: None
Violent Content Rating: None
Joanie's Website:
www.bookswelove.net/macneil.html
When Alexandra Jordan’s flat mate Justin talks her into accepting a summer job with his brother David Meredith, it seems an ideal situation. The peace and tranquility of the beach, working as an assistant to an author, is the escape she needs. Alex has many problems in her life. The main one is she is pregnant and the father to be is a callous playboy is not interested in her after his conquest. However another problem soon presents itself when Alex meets David and he isn’t impressed with her.
David Meredith is slowly losing his sight through glaucoma. Once fiercely independent he now relies on help to get his manuscripts finished. However when Alex Jordan turns up on his doorstep he is not happy. Although he cannot see her properly, he can sense her being and smell her perfume. Alex is not a distraction David wants. He is still smarting from his ex-wife’s betrayal and he is not about to trust any woman so soon. However Alex isn’t to be pushed away so easily. She is there to do a job aiding David. She’s not there to pity to him.
But instant attraction cannot be denied. Both Alex and David are reluctantly drawn to each other. The two of them have much in common. Both had dealt with betrayal, emptiness and sadness in their lives. Alex needs to have someone she can depend on and David wants to be able to trust someone again. They slowly begin to realize they may have found the one person that can make them love again. But will misunderstandings and their careers force them apart?
I could easily empathize with both characters in Sapphire Summer. Alex is a smart woman who got caught up in a bad situation but choose to make the most of it. You have to admire that about anyone. And, at the start of the book, I thought David came across as a haunted shadow of a man dealing with the blow to his independence because of his eyesight. Anyone could emphasize with that. However in some parts of the book he annoyed me when he questioned Alex’s motives with his chip on the shoulder attitude. But that is not a flaw in the character it’s more that he evolved through the book and I started to like him as he loosened up. I suspect this was the intention of the author.
To me, this is a book about two lonely people meeting through synchronicity and fighting the inevitable of being together. It s a sweet romance, but it’s also full bodied and very descriptive. You are at the beach with David and Alex.
Sapphire Summer is a book where you want the two characters to get together. You understand their pain, get frustrated at their pride and are pleased when the finally realize that what the want is each other. It’s classic romance.
Janet
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